Factors limiting our understanding of ecological scale

Ecological Complexity

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 150-159

  Wheatley, Matthew ^a   Johnson, Chris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Domain; Extent; Grain; Multi scale; Scale; Wildlife habitat modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349256856     PISSN: 1476945X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2008.10.011     Document Type: Review

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